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Author:	Tony King
Title:	The Tastemaker
Subtitle:	My Life With The Legends And Geniuses Of Rock Music
Publisher:	Faber And Faber
Country:	UK
Date:	2 Feb 2023
Format:	Hardcover
Genre:	Non-Fiction, Music, Biography
ISBN-13:	9780571371938
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Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
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320 pages.

From the publisher's website (www link as at 21 October 2022):

From The Beatles and David Bowie to Elton John, The Rolling Stones and Tom Jones, Tony King has been a confidante and creative muse for some of the world’s greatest artists. Now, for the first time, he tells his story.

The Tastemaker charts the singular life of a man who has been at the beating heart of music’s most iconic moments for over sixty years.

Leaving school and starting his career at Decca Records in 1958 at the age of sixteen, Tony King would soon find himself becoming close friends with Elton John, rekindling John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s relationship, mediating a quarrelsome Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and spending time with Freddie Mercury in his final days – a far cry from his childhood days in Eastbourne.

Living in an era of seismic social, technological and cultural transformation, King experienced these defining moments as a stalwart in London and New York’s gay scenes. Alongside his heady life in showbusiness, he was witness to the AIDS crisis and its devastating consequences: the death of family, the death of friends and the stultifying weight of responsibility in being called upon to hold things together.

At once profound and suffused with Tony King’s disarming warmth and unparalleled charisma, The Tastemaker paints an intimate portrait of a music legend and captures the unpredictable world he stamped his indelible mark upon.

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JPGR&B SUBS 22nd Oct 2022		Faber reveals cover of The Tastemaker, Tony King's memoir By Faber Editor, 19 October 2022



JPGR&B SUBS 22nd Oct 2022		From April 2021: Faber announce the signing of music industry Tony King to write his memoir. The as yet unititled memoir will be published in 2023. "Confidante and creative muse for some of the world’s greatest artists, including Elton John, Freddie Mercury and John Lennon, Tony King has a story unlike any other,” Faber said. “For over six decades, Tony King has been at the beating heart of the most iconic musical moments and this story will be essential reading.” “He started his 61-year career in the music business in 1958 at Decca Records. At 19, he became the youngest promotion man of the time and looked after visiting American artists such as Roy Orbison, Brenda Lee, the Ronettes and their svengali producer Phil Spector. “After setting up Immediate Records with the Rolling Stones’ manager, Andrew Loog Oldham, Tony was approached by Sir George Martin’s independent production company to do promotion for his artists and others in the company produced by his co-partners—among them Cilla Black, the Hollies, Manfred Mann, Tom Jones and the Beatles. In 1970 he joined the Beatles’ Apple Records as general manager.” He continued to work with the Beatles, pulling together both the album Ringo with Ringo Starr and Mind Games with John Lennon, before becoming executive vice-president of Elton John’s label, Rocket. He stayed with Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones for almost 30 years and, since 2011, has worked as John's creative director, among many other things. See the news from April 2021 here.

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